Description
This comprehensive Middle School NGSS lab on Earth’s History and the Geologic Timescale is designed to align with the NGSS Middle School MS-ESS1-4 standard “show how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6 billion year old history based on evidence from rock strata“. The topics are explored and developed in the science stations are:
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- Stratigraphy
- Law of Superposition
- Law of Original Horizontality
- Relative and Absolute Dating
- The Fossil Record
- Radiometric Dating
Science Stations
- Read It – here the students read about the famous Great Unconformity and recent advances in understanding it. They will answer questions on the text in the record sheet.
- Calculate It – at this station the students will calculate the age of rock samples based on interpreting the radiometric data on the graph.
- Graph It – the students are given data in tabular form showing the radioactive decay of U235. They must make a graph from the data.
- Infer It – students are shown a sheet showing a cross section of earth. The questions on the sheet will ask them to make inferences from the picture.
- Watch It – the students watch a short (2m) video showing how to date fossils using C14. They answer questions on the video.
- Explain It – students look at and must explain how the supplied features are formed.
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